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The birth of Psychoanalysis. From incestuous couples to transference love.
No full textThrough an analytic reading of the 2 films by Elizabeth Marton and Roberto Faenza, we revisit the relationship between Sabina Spielrein and Carl Gustav Jung, focusing their attention on the contribution it gave to the development of the concept of transference and countertransference. Elisabeth Marton's film is more linked to the historical documentary, and Faenza inserts historical documentary in a fictional frame, bringing the spectator towards the affective, passionate level of this analytic relationship of the beginning. In the history of psychoanalysis, the therapeutic and love encounter of Spielrein and Jung represents the first attempt to testify the sufferings and errors, suffered by the 2 protagonists; they supplied the basic elements for the reflection and research of contemporary psychoanalysis on the theme of transference/countertransference
An entire life in one glance: a psychoanalytic reading of Revolutionary Road
No full textThis article, starting from an analysis of the film Revolutionary Road (2009; director, Sam Mendes), addresses the topic of conflictuality in relationships between couples, especially in those characterized by intense violence and a relational configuration of the sadomasochistic type. In particular, the film – in highlighting sequential moments in the couple's life, from its formation through to its tragic conclusion – seems to strengthen the hypothesis that the specific quality of falling in love is a contributing factor in determining the dramatic unfolding of a couple's relationship. The relationship is characterized by an experience of intense, erotic sensoriality, and by the nature of the unconscious fantasy underlying the bond between the couple that began with the moment of falling in love, a bond in which deep needs for fusion predominate. The presence of this neediness impedes a more adequate working through of the conflicts and the transition to more satisfying ways of relating
Aestheticism and Creativity in The Legend of the pianist on the Ocean (Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy, 1998)
No full textThe authors consider Giuseppe Tornatore's film from a psychoanalytic perspective as a metaphor of the difficult individuation-separation process of Max. He tells the lifestory of his friend Nineteen Hundred, the main character of the film, a virtuoso pianist who spent all his life on board a transatlantic ship in motion between the old continent and the new. Brought up by a black stoker in the deep noisy belly of the ship, music becomes, for him, the substitute for his unkown mother's body, his only raison d'etre and the structural aspect of his personality. In fact, he can never abandon the transatlantic, where he dies in the final explosion. Max, the trumpeter, telling his story to the old instruments dealer, works through the loss of his grandiose fantasy of perfection and omnipotence, represented by his friend Nineteen Hundred, and he finds a safer dimension of creativity and life. As in the analytic encounter, the possibility to narrate one's story to someone capable of listening and holding, opens the way to the psychic change. Nineteen Hundred, on the contrary, represents the destructive/split part of the personality, unable to leave the grandiosity of the infant Self, compelled to die, becuase it is linked to primary fusionality and Ego Idea
Memorie e ri-costruzioni in psicoanalisi e nel cinema:Stange days e Betrayal
No full textLa memoria è un processo in continua modificazione e costruzione, strettamente legato alle vicende affettive e relazionali che esso contribuisce a suscitare. Ricordare è quindi un processo creativo di costruzione semantica e simbolica che vede paziente e analista collaborare al fine di compiere questo processo di ri-costruzione. Nella loro interazione memoria e ricostruzione assumono pesi diversi a secondo che prevalga la capacità simbolico-rappresentativa della psiche piuttosto che un legame con l’oggetto fortemente connotato in senso corporeo-sensoriale. Tale lavoro si presenta come uno scritto ricco di spunti, che permette di esplorare un ambito esteso, che va dalle neuroscienze fino alla psicoanalisi
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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